Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts | Trailer
Preview: Season 7 Episode 4 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
Exploring the often-contradictory role played by Black soldiers in American history.
Established by Congress, the 14th Amendment promised citizenship in exchange for enlistment, prompting many African American men. They were denied due to Jim Crow laws but still served. The film examines the profound and often-contradictory roles played by Buffalo Soldiers in U.S. history, and how they fought on two sets of front lines: military conflicts abroad and civil rights struggles at home.
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Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Wyncote Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts | Trailer
Preview: Season 7 Episode 4 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
Established by Congress, the 14th Amendment promised citizenship in exchange for enlistment, prompting many African American men. They were denied due to Jim Crow laws but still served. The film examines the profound and often-contradictory roles played by Buffalo Soldiers in U.S. history, and how they fought on two sets of front lines: military conflicts abroad and civil rights struggles at home.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- When we tell our stories, we leave the Black stories out, and the Buffalo Soldiers were a perfect example of that.
- Telling the story of the Buffalo Soldiers is a means of reestablishing that which was already there.
- Being capable of great deeds was not something that society was willing to admit, that Black people were capable of doing.
- The Army gave him the only part of the American dream that the nation would let him share.
- It gave them a sense of respect to wear the uniform of the United States to potentially sacrifice their life for the United States.
Because of their ferocity in battle and the texture of their hair, they began to call them Buffalo Soldiers as a term of respect.
- We say African American history, but we gotta get out of that.
It's American history.
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A conversation with director Dru Holley of BUFFALO SOLDIERS: FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS. (5m 40s)
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Exploring the often-contradictory role played by Black soldiers in American history. (30s)
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